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Favourite Music
#21
RE: Favourite Music
Np. Do you mean the 3 here? Or the 7 in the videos forum?
In the videos thread I posted one track from each of the 7 Orbital albums rather than posting another here. In case you don't know and watched only the three here. There's four more in the videos forum, plus the 3 that's here. And I can post some more if you wishSmile of what I have found/can find.
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#22
RE: Favourite Music
Big Grin oh awesome! I didn't realise. I'll go listen now Big Grin
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#23
RE: Favourite Music
Orbital and Goldfrapp, eh? I'm guessing you're into a particular kind of music. Like Leftfield, Kraftwerk, Royksopp and Faithless, too? I've a mate who's really, really into that stuff!

As for me: Classical -- Only piano music; Rachmaninov, Chopin, Mozart Piano Concertos and Sonatas & Beethoven Sonatas. Really, though, I'm absolutely hooked on Ravel. His music is like perpetual motion. Steven Sondheim's musicals (in the main) really remind me of Ravel's music. Also got hooked on Gershwin for a while, although i'm not sure whether that's classical or Jazz. That one, clean, striking trumpet note in the middle of 'An American In Paris' still gives me goosebumps. Porgy and Bess is also superb.

Jazz -- again, more piano stuff; like the humour and fun in Fats Waller, the beauty of Oscar Peterson and the energy of Dave Brubeck. Swing music is fantastic and is definitely 'getting ready to go out' music -- Benny Goodman is cool, but Count Basie is the man. If you're in the mood people like Thelonious Monk or Bill Evans have produced some of the most beautiful music ever.

Funk -- got pretty hooked on the JBs for a while; the driving rythms and timbre are superb. For downright dirty (filthy, sweaty, funk), there's Parliment, Bootsy's Rubber Band, KC and the Sunshine Band. The Meters are really accomplished and I love the hammond sounds of Jimmy Smith and Jimmy McGriff. The classics are also cool -- The Meters and the Gaturs are standard classics.

Hip-Hop -- Really like the funky low-fi west coast sound of Jurassic 5, Pharcyde, Jungle Brothers, Tribe Called Quest and, of course, De La Soul. Dr Dre's first solo album, 'The Chronic' is filthy funky. The Roots have a real band, so don't sound over produced: very cool.

Musicals -- i'm a bit of a musicals nut (which is odd for a straight bloke) so like most musicals.

That about sums it up. It's probably easier to state what I hate: Indie Rock of any kind. The Fratellis, The Killers, The Foo Fighters, et al. When did 'rock' music become jangly slightly distorted guitars? What happened to the rocking of AC/DC and Deep Purple? Where's the tunesmithery gone that was evident in people like Paul Simon or Fleetwood Mac? Why doesn't anyone put an album together like 'Dark Side of the Moon'?

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#24
RE: Favourite Music
Believe it or not? I like a lot of classical (well basically all famous classical pieces I have heard. Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Vivaldi etc. And I like a great variety of music. The Black Keys (Rock), Jimi Hendrix (Rock) Radiohead (Alternative Rock) and Muse (my favourite rock band and my brothers favourite band of all).

Lenny Kravitz. Alicia Keys. Some of the Black Eyed Peas. Plenty of Jamiroquai.

Supermen Lovers.

And then yes I like a lot of Electronica but there is not one type of music I won't like if it sounds good to me. Its NOT about the style for me.

The thing is Electronica is extremely broad because it can incorporate pretty much any other style of music into it. Its not specific. It just contains something electronic enough about it (like synths) that classify it as elecronica. And Synths are very very broad too. Less specific than say a piano or whatever.

Although I think pianos are extremely beautiful instruments and a lot of my favourite songs ever, of Orbital's for example. Have piano in them.

Such as Kein Trink Wasser and Fahrenheit 303. Also the beautiful piano at the start of what is (probably) my favourite song ever. Halcyon on and on by Orbital.

I like Jazz, Hip-hop, Funk, Classical rock and even a bit of country (some Moby songs that have been a 'bit country sounding' I have liked a lot. Its not about the style for me its about the sound).

Orbital were originally influenced by punk and electro and they incorporate all sorts of different sounds and samples into their music.

So I like lots of different styles of music. I generally like electronica but then - thats because I like music that has lots of sound in it and to have synth influence is at least generally better than no synth for me.

And as I said electronica is very very broad and practically any other style can be successful incorporated with it.

Leftfield for example fuse reggae with dub and house music. And they even got a genre named after them because they're so unique (and cool). A music genre called - Leftfield.

I bloody love music. Its about the sound not the style for me. I don't favour electronica it just happens that a lot of the bands I like do electronica. I guess I prefer the sound of different instruments with synths than without. I love synths.

My favourite instruments are synths, drums and piano.

I like lots of different bands but Orbital is the one for me overall. And Electronica is very broad and Orbital certainly cannot be defined in one word other than "Orbital". Providing you know that it stands for them (the band) and not the m25 they're named after.

I'm certainly not into one kind of music. Certainly not. There are big differences between these different bands. Music with synths is not simply all the same. Synths are extremely versatile. And you can add practically any other music with them! Electronica is very very versatile and thats why I overall like more electronica bands. Its not the style, its the sound. For me. And of course - how it sounds to me. I can't speak for others.

Orbital said that Underworld are mates of theirs. But as they pointed out there are certainly differences. I mean you only have to listen. Both kind of long tracks but they sound different.

Underworld tend to have a 'certain style'. Orbital's music on the other hand varies a great deal. They always have the 'Orbital feel' about their music - but if you listen to their different albums they vastly transform and each album tends to have a very different theme that kind of develops throughout and tells a story. And sometimes the tracks blend into each other.

Like how on the 3rd album Lush3-1 which then blends into part 2 (3-2) then blends into the track 'Impact' which blends into 'Remind'.

And they very often blend their tracks into each other (as the track is changing) live. In my experience. Listening to 'Live at Glastonbury 1994-2004' and watching (and hearing!) the DVD version of it too.

It just sounds awesome as far as I'm concerned. I like lots of styles.

I think the Muse track's 'Bliss' and 'Plug in Baby' are extremely cool too, for example. And Lenny Kravitz's 'Are you Gonna Go My Way?', 'Fly Away' tunnel vision. And practically all his tracks I really like too (as with Muse). But Bliss and Plug in Baby I'd say are my favourite's of theirs.
Too many other stuff to list really.
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#25
RE: Favourite Music
I like a lot of bands.

This one is Pepper, it's called butthole surfers lol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTltKbfvnfI

This is Zombie by The Cranberries

the video has it's strange moments, but I love this song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJEySrDerj0

And of course, 311!!!!! i can't get enough of them. I love 311

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTs7ioZUXiU

EvidencevsFaith, ever heard of sabrepulse?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Dn2H1dTl...re=related
OH MY I almost forgot my all time favorite, or one of them.

I LOVE LOVE LOVE modest mouse

this one is called Ocean Breathes Salty

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZE-ML-BAAfY
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#26
RE: Favourite Music
You got Butthole surfers and Pepper reversed. The band is Butthole Surfers (Gibby Haynes and Paul Leary). You should hear their "Annoying song", its hilarious. I always had a soft spot for bands like Butthole Surfers, Revolting Cocks, Ministry, Lard, Primus, Nomeansno.

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Butthole Surfers - Clean it up Smile
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#27
RE: Favourite Music
oh right thats what i ment lol
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#28
RE: Favourite Music
That Sabrepulse song was interesting. No I don't believe I have heard of them before.
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#29
RE: Favourite Music
Classical - mainly Paganini and Beethoven (I'm currently learning to play his 5th symphony on guitar), also some neoclassical such as Yngwie Malmsteem and Michael Angelo Batio.

Symphonic/Prog/Power Metal - Rhapsody of Fire, Blind Guardian, Sonata Arctica, Dimmu Borgir etc

Thrash - Metallica, Megadeth, Overkill etc as well as some edgier bands like Kreator, Sodom and Slayer.

Death metal - melodic death such as Children of Bodom, In Flames, Scar Symmetry and At the Gates

Hardcore - the good stuff from the 80's Smile.... Black Flag, Misfits, Minor Threat, Dead Kennedys

Punk - original punk like the Clash, Ramones, Sex Pistols as well as some newer bands such as NOFX and Anti-Flag
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#30
RE: Favourite Music
(January 10, 2009 at 9:05 am)lilphil1989 Wrote: Classical - mainly Paganini and Beethoven (I'm currently learning to play his 5th symphony on guitar), also some neoclassical such as Yngwie Malmsteem and Michael Angelo Batio.

Symphonic/Prog/Power Metal - Rhapsody of Fire, Blind Guardian, Sonata Arctica, Dimmu Borgir etc

Thrash - Metallica, Megadeth, Overkill etc as well as some edgier bands like Kreator, Sodom and Slayer.

Death metal - melodic death such as Children of Bodom, In Flames, Scar Symmetry and At the Gates

Hardcore - the good stuff from the 80's Smile.... Black Flag, Misfits, Minor Threat, Dead Kennedys

Punk - original punk like the Clash, Ramones, Sex Pistols as well as some newer bands such as NOFX and Anti-Flag

At last, even if we're on different pages, someone whose taste in music I can appreciate Smile

I'm getting into symphonic metal too Smile ... I've been into NIghtwish for some time, Kamelot's "March Of Mephisto" (featuring Shagrath of Dimmu Borgir) is pretty cool and I like quite a bit of Epica.

I like a fair bit of late 70's punk but I never really got The Ramones ... I do like that one "hey Ho Let's Go" but that's because it features in the pilot episode of "Space Above And Beyond".

Kyu
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